3.Since
the beginning of the operation the following amounts were
provided to the Palestinians via Kerem-Shalom
crossing:

•2.8 million liters of diesel for the power
station in Gaza Strip.•1.4 million liters of
fuel.•304,000 liters of benzene for
transportation.•1084 tons of gas for domestic
needs.

4.Erez crossing: Since the beginning of
the operation, there were 1272 entries of Palestinians and
others via Erez Crossing into Israel, and 1066 from Israel
into Gaza. So far, Israel coordinated 27 cases of back to
back ambulance procedure, mainly from Gaza to Israel (58
Palestinian patients were hospitalized in Israel) and
Jordan, but also vice versa. 247Jordanian field hospital
staff members crossed into Gaza to replace their colleges.
1000 units of blood from Jordan and the Red Cross were
transferred to Gaza.

5.This evening (20 July) Israel will
open a field hospital nearby the Erez crossing in order to
tend injured and sick Palestinian civilians.

6.Since the
beginning of the operation Israel held 24 infrastructural
repairs: 10 electrical repairs; 10 water supply repairs; 2
sewage repairs; 2 communication repairs. On Friday (18
July), two high voltage lines supplying electricity from
Israel to northern Gaza Strip were repaired, despite the
dangers to which Israeli Electrical Corporation workers were
exposed due to Hamas firing rockets on this area. The two
lines provide a total of 25 Mega-Watt from Israel to some
40,000 people in the Gaza Strip.

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